Saturday, November 9, 2002

Last week three different people alerted me to an auction on ebay of an 1857 family bible. The seller had scanned in a couple of the pages that showed the original owner (Gideon Taylor) as well as some of the marriage and birth records (m. Sarah Burr). The three people did a search on google and rootweb.com and found that they were in my genealogy (actually my wife's side).

Friday, November 8, 2002

I had just responded to a field person about a particular Linux question with some detailed information and pointed her to a number of our external corporate pages with more relevant information. This is the 'attaboy' from my manager:

Nice, overwhelm them with URLs, that's the ticket ;-)

You shall fight besides me as we take on the masters of the digital plantations. No longer shall we remain poverty impoverished shareware cropping lackies.

Friday, November 1, 2002

When the kids came back from Trick or Treating this year there wasa piece of paper in their bag:

The Pumpkin

A young boy asked his playmate "What is it like to be a Christian?"The playmate said, "It is like being a pumpkin. God picks you fromthe patch, brings you in, and washed all the dirt off of you. Then Hecuts off the top and, scoops out all the yucky stuff. Then He removesthe seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. and then He carves you a newsmiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all theworld to see."

Man those christians are one scary bunch! It reminds me ofHannibal Lector cutting heads open, scooping out brains and thencarving your face with a knife. Nice.